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#1 - Posted 3 August 2009, 12:35 AM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!
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#2 - Posted 3 August 2009, 1:07 AM
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Please let this thread not be another "race" thread.

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#3 - Posted 3 August 2009, 7:05 AM
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no its not just trying to keep in touch with other like me in dominican republic gosh
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#4 - Posted 3 August 2009, 7:46 AM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!


I've read somewhere that there their community on this country is numbered around 25,000, making them the largest community of german descended people in the Caribbean. Which makes that a wonder by itself, seeing as how all the other attempts at populating the island by these people (specially on the western part of the island) have failed dismally, due to the fact of their little resistance when exposed to the ravages of tropical diseases (malaria, yellow fever, etc.).
Edited on 8/3/2009 8:19 AM by Lautaro.
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#5 - Posted 3 August 2009, 7:56 AM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!


I've read somewhere that there their community on this country is numbered around 25,000, making it the largest community of german descended people in the Caribbean.



In my family's hometown, Baitoa, there's a family of German descent that has been living there for generations, the Ottenwalders.
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#6 - Posted 3 August 2009, 8:00 AM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!


I've read somewhere that there their community on this country is numbered around 25,000, making it the largest community of german descended people in the Caribbean.



In my family's hometown, Baitoa, there's a family of German descent that has been living there for generations, the Ottenwalders.


I consider it odd that they haven't taken the path of emigration that have plagued the people over there on the last decades, specially if we take into account the efforts that the countries of the EU have been making to call back their diasporas (to serve as a buffer against the african/arab tide reaching their shores). Are they large landholders by chance?
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#7 - Posted 3 August 2009, 8:56 AM
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no its not just trying to keep in touch with other like me in dominican republic gosh


sorry Divine, I didn't mean to say you started a racial thread, I was asking our resident western haters not to turn into one.
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#8 - Posted 3 August 2009, 8:57 AM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!


I've read somewhere that there their community on this country is numbered around 25,000, making them the largest community of german descended people in the Caribbean. Which makes that a wonder by itself, seeing as how all the other attempts at populating the island by these people (specially on the western part of the island) have failed dismally, due to the fact of their little resistance when exposed to the ravages of tropical diseases (malaria, yellow fever, etc.).


I once read that there were 200,000 Germans in the RD.
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#9 - Posted 3 August 2009, 9:11 AM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!


I've read somewhere that there their community on this country is numbered around 25,000, making it the largest community of german descended people in the Caribbean.



In my family's hometown, Baitoa, there's a family of German descent that has been living there for generations, the Ottenwalders.


I consider it odd that they haven't taken the path of emigration that have plagued the people over there on the last decades, specially if we take into account the efforts that the countries of the EU have been making to call back their diasporas (to serve as a buffer against the african/arab tide reaching their shores). Are they large landholders by chance?


Nope. They're just like everyone else in the town and many of them have emigrated along with their fellow Baitoeros to the States. They're just one family out of many but they just happen to be of German descent. Very few of the current generation look typically German.
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#10 - Posted 3 August 2009, 12:54 PM
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Just wanted to know i know is there still dominicans with german hertiage my mother is one for example and only have met afew i heard there is thosand of them if you are one who know one let me know!!!!


I've read somewhere that there their community on this country is numbered around 25,000, making them the largest community of german descended people in the Caribbean. Which makes that a wonder by itself, seeing as how all the other attempts at populating the island by these people (specially on the western part of the island) have failed dismally, due to the fact of their little resistance when exposed to the ravages of tropical diseases (malaria, yellow fever, etc.).


I once read that there were 200,000 Germans in the RD.


I'm having a hard time believing this guy isn't as troll. It's obviously not that high.
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